Lily Gladstone & Isabel Deroy in Fancy Dance interview
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Fancy Dance follows Jax, who has been taking care of her niece Roki on the Seneca–Cayuga Nation Reservation since her sister disappeared. While searching for her sister, Jax is also helping Roki prepare for the upcoming powwow. However, when Jax's father, Frank, comes back into the picture, she risks losing custody of Roki to him.
Screen Rant interviewed stars Lily Gladstone and Isabel Deroy-Olson about their new movie Fancy Dance prior to its limited theatrical release on June 21 and Apple TV+ premiere on June 28. Gladstone revealed how she was on board for the movie before the script was completed and explained how her character's style of dance connects to her own experience. Deroy-Olson shared how she and Gladstone got to know each other before filming and how the style of dance reflected each of their characters.
I just kind of was like, Okay, when it's written, send it to me. I can't wait. So I was already on board. I had no idea what was going to come out of, especially when I learned it was going to be a collaboration with Michiana that Erica had met through Sundance. So when I read the script, I was just so, I don't want to say relieved because I knew it was going to be great, but I was along the ride just as everybody is when they watch it.
Deroy-Olson, who ironically played a younger version of Gladstone's character in Under The Bridge, explained how the actors bonded during the rehearsals while working on language and dance immersion. She also explained how Roki's style of dance for the powwow is more contemporary, reflecting who she is. Gladstone further explained not only Jax's style of dance, but the important history behind it and how she connected to the style on a personal level.
Lily Gladstone: Yeah, Jax is old style women's fancy dance. So where Roki's style does favor a very youthful way of movement, it's mimetic of how butterfly moves. It flits, it barely touches the ground. It's light, it's flashy, it's showy. Women's old style fancy dance was born from a Ponca woman who was tired of dancing in a very straight, contained, measured way that women danced traditionally.
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